I like Lee Child’s writing. The sentences are short and curt and the dialogue are quite smart, without being too scripted. The book seems real enough. The problem is however with the storyline. Spoiler Alert. Jack Reacher is supposedly roped in to ‘help’ FBI with an investigation, where the serial killer targets ex-army who suffered…
A colleague is resigning soon and as I asked him why, he explained the normal reasons, except for one. He said it was due to lack of work or things to do. He was working in Asia before coming to the UK, so he said there was a very different working culture where he used…
Following my previous post on values, it occurred to me that electronic items have a very bad deprecation value. It used to be that cars are regarded as a bad asset since the value drops immediately after driven off the showroom, but I think nowadays, nothing ‘beats’ electronics. I saw an advert for the new…
A few months ago, an online post is famous about having her kitchen in almost all white and her appliances from the very expensive brand, SMEG. Among the online comments that I remember was, “How does she manages to keep her kitchen so white?”. I remember because I had the same thought. Turns out, or…
This is a short children’s book but I thought I would review it here mostly so that I can look back in the future. I like the book. It tells the story about Robert, who thinks his angry teacher, is a monster. But upon one afternoon accidentally spending time with her in the park, he…
There’s always something to learn from anyone. Travelling half the world, from the south-east of Asia to this west side of Europe, I have learned a lot of new things. It have made me humble as I realize that over the years, all my knowledge and understanding are limited to a certain geographic limitation or…
Years from now, people will say it is a mistake. A mistake to let it happen, to let the massacre continue. Years from now, when their predecessors have waned in their powers, the then ‘leaders’ will then admit, that it was a blunder. A blunder to let the genocide go on unchecked. Decades have gone…
Especially if you have data to compare. Recently a website that I used often Monkeytype, reminded me that it has been two years since I started typing on their website. Here’s a snapshot of the progress over two years. There’s a slow but steady increasing trend shown by the graph. It shows how fast I…
I chance upon this notice a few days ago. I’ve been to this shop once, a few months back, where it was selling quite a large number of pastries and sandwiches. I had no idea how old the shop was at that time. I noticed it was not upon recently so I went closer. I…
The title can be understand in the sense that you need to learn enough before you can teach; which is true. If you don’t know enough about something, you can’t teach others about it. If you’ve never eaten a type of dish, how are you going to able to describe to others, how it taste?…
